Sverdlovsk Region Finds New Partner in Zimbabwe
Sverdlovsk Region and Midlands Province in Zimbabwe have become economic and scientific partners. The document on cooperation was signed on the sidelines of the Innoprom-2024 exhibition by Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev and Minister of Development of the province Owen Ncube, the correspondent of EAN reports.
The agreement assumes that Sverdlovsk Region and Midlands will work together in the spheres of industry, trade, science, sports and tourism. Joint projects and programs of the two regions may appear in the near future. Earlier it was reported that the African side is interested in training its students in technical specialties in the Urals.
Midlands is one of the largest provinces of Zimbabwe. Its territory is home to one of the richest gold deposits, there are reserves of gold, lithium, copper, iron. The main economic profile of the region is mining and metallurgy, metalworking and chemical industries. Zimbabweans are counting on Russian investment. Cooperation will also develop in other areas, such as education.
“There are seven students from our country studying in the Sverdlovsk Region, and there are more than a thousand of them in Russia,” Mr. Ncube noted.
“Friendly African states, including Zimbabwe, are showing great interest in training their youth in engineering specialties, since the profile of the Midlands province is mining, metallurgy and processing,” commented Oleg Aleksandrin, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk Region.